Design of Portable and Sustainable Solar Refrigerator Summary
Abstract
This paper is presented as a preliminary design of a portable solar refrigerator, which uses a solar adsorption system. The aim is to achieve a sustainable design that includes not only the materials but also considerations for the useful life of the equipment and its final disposition. This equipment has been considered as an economical solution for rural communities where there is no electricity, and whose food goods need to be preserved. The suggested design considers a CPC as primary source of energy for the coolant fluid, which its three analyzed substances are: water, methanol and biogas, obtained from the bovine manure and organic domestic trash (wastage). Vegetal carbon is recommended, for this project, as adsorbent material that is usually used in several researches around world as substitute of activated coal.
Keywords
Solar cooling, Adsorption cycle, Cpc.